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Campus & Community

Spotlight on EOIRS: Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Thursday, March 16, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University is committed to non-discrimination and providing equal opportunity and access to all students, faculty and staff. The Office of Equal Opportunity, Inclusion and Resolution Services (EOIRS) is tasked with ensuring that happens. Led by Sheila Johnson-Willis, the University’s interim…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University to Operate on Limited Activity Status on Wed., March 15; Only Essential Services Personnel Should Report to Campus

Tuesday, March 14, 2017, By News Staff

As a result of this sustained winter weather pattern and after reviewing the most up-to-date National Weather Service data in collaboration with an independent meteorologist, Syracuse University public safety officials decided to operate on limited status once again on Wednesday, March 15.

Campus & Community

Save Smart: TIAA Offering Retirement Planning Sessions

Monday, March 13, 2017, By News Staff

Faculty and staff are invited to join Molly Amos and Joe Silino, TIAA financial consultants, for two lunchtime sessions focused on what you can do now to improve your financial future. “Saving for Your Ideal Retirement” is Monday, March 20,…

NBC News

Robert Thompson Offers Thoughts on TV and President Trump

Monday, March 13, 2017, By Keith Kobland

Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, was interviewed by NBC News for the story Coming to a TV Near You: Trump’s America.

ABC News

Kevin Noble Maillard Discusses Parental Rights on “Nightline”

Monday, March 13, 2017, By Keith Kobland

Kevin Noble Maillard, professor of law, was interviewed by ABC News program Nightline for the story This 3-year-old is at the center of a custody battle between her adoptive parents and birth father.

Business & Economy

Whitman School Professor Receives Inaugural Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award

Monday, March 13, 2017, By Kerri D. Howell

Johan Wiklund, the Al Berg Chair and professor of entrepreneurship at the Whitman School, has been granted the inaugural RMIT Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. During his time as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Wiklund will travel to RMIT…

Media, Law & Policy

NPR Newscaster Lakshmi Singh ’94 to Keynote Newhouse Convocation Ceremony

Monday, March 13, 2017, By Wendy S. Loughlin

NPR’s Lakshmi Singh ’94 will deliver the keynote address at the 2017 Newhouse Convocation Ceremony on Saturday, May 13, at 12:30 p.m. in the Carrier Dome. Singh is an outspoken champion of diverse voices, thought and collaboration, within newsrooms and…

Campus & Community

After Eight Years in Syracuse, a Student’s Postcard Goodbye: ‘You Will Always Be a Home to Me’

Friday, March 10, 2017, By Sean Kirst

Linda Dickerson Hartsock had a simple question for Quinton Fletchall. Hartsock, now executive director of Blackstone LaunchPad at Syracuse University, worked with Fletchall for a long time during his undergraduate and graduate years in Syracuse. As director of the Connective…

Health & Society

On Borrowed Time: Despite Calls for Divestment, Completion of DAPL Signals New Chapter in Standing Rock Conflict

Friday, March 10, 2017, By Rob Enslin

  When Norway’s largest private investor recently pulled out of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), the news barely made a blip on the world’s radar. For Phil Arnold, director of the Skä•noñh-Great Law of Peace Center in Syracuse, the message…